 | Robert Hunter - India - 1863 - 298 pages
...it is lighted, and it is extinguished. It is like the sound of a lyre, and the wise man asks in vain whence it came, and whither it goes. There must be...Intelligence* where we could find rest. If I attained it, I * Was it really to the Supreme Being that he made reference? could bring light to man : if I were free... | |
 | John Garrett - Hinduism - 1871 - 980 pages
...whence it came or •whither it goes. It is like the sound of a lyre, and the wise man asks in vaiu from whence it came and whither it goes. There must...divert him from his speculations : but all was in vaiu. Three of the most ordinary events that could happen to any man, proved of the utmost importance... | |
 | John Garrett - Hinduism - 1871 - 814 pages
...— we know not whence it came or whither it goes. It is like the sound of a lyre, and the wise man asks in vain from whence it came and whither it goes....attained it, I could bring light to man ; if I were free myeelf, I could deliver the world." The king, who perceived the melancholy mood of the young prince,... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1872 - 524 pages
...by the friction of wood. It is lighted and is extinguished, — we know not from whence it came or whither it goes. There must be some supreme intelligence...free myself, I could deliver the world." The king tried by every means to divert the mind of the young prince from his melancholy speculations, but all... | |
 | Edward Clodd - Mythology - 1875 - 308 pages
...earth is stable, nothing is real. Life is as transitory as a spark of fire, or the sound of a lyre. There must be some supreme intelligence where we could...find rest. If I attained it I could bring light to men ; if I were free myself, T could deliver the world.' His friends tried to divert his thoughts from... | |
 | Anthologies - 1878 - 720 pages
...— we know not whence it came or whither it goes. It is like the sound of a lyre, and the wise man asks in vain from whence it came and whither it goes....if I were free myself, I could deliver the world." While still pursuing this train of thought in his lonely forest meditations, three very commonplace... | |
 | Constance E. Plumptre - Pantheism - 1878 - 422 pages
...produced by the friction of wood. It is lighted and is extinguished — we know not whence it came or whither it goes. There must be some supreme intelligence...if I were free myself I could deliver the world.' Already melancholy and thoughtful, given up to dreaminess and love of solitude, there happened to him... | |
 | Albert Fytche - Burma - 1878 - 414 pages
...vain from whence it comes and whither it goes. There must be some supreme intelligence where we can find rest. If I attained it, I could bring light to...if I were free myself, I could deliver the world." He continued thus, we are told, until his twentyninth year, when the nats, who knew the time was approaching... | |
 | Albert Fytche - Burma - 1878 - 422 pages
...whither it goes. It is like the sound of a lyre, and the wise man asks in vain from whence it comes and whither it goes. There must be some supreme intelligence where we can find rest. If I attained it, I could bring light to man ; if I were free myself, I could deliver... | |
 | Albert Fytche - Burma - 1878 - 418 pages
...whither it goes. It is like the sound of a lyre, and the wise man asks in vain from whence it comes and whither it goes. There must be some supreme intelligence where we can find rest. If I attained it, I could bring light to man ; if I were free myself, I could deliver... | |
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Nothing is stable on earth,' he used to say, ' nothing is real. Life is like the spark produced by the friction of wood. It is lighted and is extinguished — we know not whence it came or whither it goes. It is like the sound of a lyre, and the wise... 
